Wednesday, 1 February 2017

January photos

This is the underside of a mushroom in a local park. The top of it was grey and it was huge for a mushroom, surrounded by a batch of equally large, grey, strong-smelling neighbours. A wood blewit perhaps?

A photo played about with after uploading. I was trying to find a way to make the green stand out a bit without going too lurid

Another 'post-production' experiment.

While the photo was in full colour, I couldn't get the effect I wantedto with this photo, hence opting for black and white to make theshadows crisper.

While this photo is blurred, I loved the colours too much not to playaround with it and crop it to zero in on those colours. Photo then enhancedto really bring out the brightness, the gold and the pinky-reds.

Frost always gives an opportunity for some fascinating pics. I had goneout on an errand the day I took these and the photo below and had to gohome and get my camera to retrace my steps as I'd seen so much I wantedto capture. The snail shell above was empty, for those concerned that a verycold snail might have been suffering in there.

I took lots of pictures of this plant. Can't recall now if it was ivy orrosemary, and these gnarly branches were bristling with ice crystalquills. Fascinating to see how the ice had grown almost like a kindof sharp-lined fungus.

Old seed heads crusted with gleaming frost. Beautiful.

I was tempted to play about with this to see what I could make ofit but then decided that I liked the shot just as it was with the sunlightfalling that way and the contrast of warm and cold colours.

A lot of my macro shots from the frost day did not pay off but Iliked this one and was pleased with the blurring of the thornsI could get in the background.

Down by a pond, the layer of pitted ice on a puddle where the waterhad receeded. This also worked as a black and white shot but choseto share this one.

Not a very good photo per se but I loved the way the ice formed in cubeson the bristles of this plant.